Shell Programming and Scripting

Dsimpg1,
We have done our best to explain it to you that the way you have it,
it does not work.

The reason is that your variable <GREPTIME2> has single quotes
surrounding it, thus the 'grep' is not doing what you want.

I suggest you make the recommended changes and test it.

You will realize that our solution works.

Perhaps an example would better explain what is happening

Code:

$cat example
VAR="abc"
VAR1="' "$VAR"'"
VAR2=" $VAR"
echo "VAR1=$VAR1"
echo "VAR2=$VAR2"
echo "data for VAR1 abcdef" |grep "$VAR1" 
echo "data for VAR2 abcdef" |grep "$VAR2" 

$ksh example
VAR1=' abc'
VAR2= abc
data for VAR2 abcdef

Your grep is looking for a single quote, a space, the date, and another single quote. Your grep does not look for a space followed by the date.

My apologies to all for not understanding what it is you were trying to say. Yes, you were correct, I was searching for it with quotes. Now that I have done what you said and removed the conversion to GREPTIME2 (I am only using GREPTIME now), it works as it should. Guess I tried to make something a little more complicated than it needed to be. Again, sorry. Thanks for all of your help!